There are two different types of healing we can receive: physical and spiritual. Currently, faith in natural healing is extremely pertinent for me, as my mother has been living with a brain tumor for about a year. It is benign, but causes her to have violent blackout seizures and gives her the high risk of having a stroke. I was twenty-one in my last year as a university student and while I was writing final research papers, my mother was writing her will. When the time came for the finalisation of her papers, she announced I was to be her “power of attorney”. I thought about my graduation, my future marriage, the children I hope to have and I tried to imagine my life without her, but it was simply impossible.
God has operated through faith since the beginning of time. This is what gives me hope when I am in the direst of straits. When there is no answer to your problem, when there is no cure, when no one believes in your capability then it is the greatest time to remember that God created the universe out of nothing. The keys to finding faith in healing are found in these three verses (Hebrews 11:1; 3; 6) We must first believe God is present and working in our life. Secondly, we must be confident in the ability of our all powerful God to create something from nothing, because what we know the earth and the world to be today “was not made out of what was visible”. Thirdly, we must hasten to the throne of the one that we know is all knowing and all powerful because “He rewards those who earnestly seek him”.
The Woman with the issue of blood spent her entire fortune to find a cure for her ailment. Menstruating women were considered unclean in the Jewish law for this period of time, therefore she had to overcome the fact that she had no offering, no options, and had to press through a crowd.
Jairus’ obstacle was not only the crowd, not only the fact that he was on a time crunch because his daughter was in the process of dying, but also the woman with the issue of blood being healed. Her healing caused a slight delay in his journey. I’m certain if the woman had not stopped Jesus on his way, Jairus’ daughter probably would have survived, but this provided God the chance to work an even more miraculous work through Jesus, which was not only healing a disease, but also raising someone from the dead.
The woman was truthful and faithful even though she knew that she might be punished for reaching out for the Lord and approaching him to heal her. I can see Jesus looking into her honest and pleading eyes with compassion knowing what courage it took to reach out for him and to touch him and loving her for believing in Him and the power that resided in Him so. Jairus took the word of God for truth even when people laughed at it. The bible explicitly says the people in the house laughed at Jesus when He commanded them to stop crying because the little girl was only sleep. If people laughed at Jesus they will laugh at you.
I, who grew up poor in a broken home, who survived the scars of sexual and physical assault, who was told would not amount to anything and surmounted not only others’, but my own expectations of myself to be who I am today. What can I say concerning faith and healing? God is able to eradicate every problem you have instantaneously, however sometimes instead of giving us instantaneous healing, he needs to grow us up and develop our faith so that we may reap the benefits of unshakable faith in and belief His almighty power. I look at my resilient mother, uninsured, sometimes weak and financially hard pressed on every side and the impossibility of healing and provision and in her situation increases my irrational belief in the Lord’s ability to heal and provide for her.
So, whether God is choosing to deal with your physical or spiritual healing with sufficiency or supremacy, remember Jesus’ words “All things are possible to him who believes.” (Mark 9:23) As my mother was able place faith in God and in me, so I give my faith to Him!!! I encourage you to do the same today! There are no impossibilities to you beloved for God is concerned about you! The best is yet to come!
Written By: Kristina Love
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